Hosea 8:12

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Summary

Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Written

But

General references

Proverbs 22:20

Matthew 22:36

Bible References

Written

Therefore shall ye observe, and do them , for that, will be your wisdom, and discernment, in the eyes of the peoples, - who will hear all these statutes, and will say - Nevertheless, a people wise and discerning, is this great nation.

And, upon Mount Sinai, camest thou down, and spakest with them out of the heavens, - and gavest them just regulations, and faithful laws, good statutes and commandments.

Unveil thou mine eyes, that I may discern Wondrous things out of thy law.

Declaring his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his regulations, unto Israel.

Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:

Then gave I unto them my statutes, And my regulations, caused I them to know,- By the which the man that doeth them shall live.

What, then, is the preeminence of the Jew? Or what, the profit of his circumcision?

So that, the law, indeed, is holy, and the commandment, holy, and righteous and good.

But

My people, are destroyed, for lack of knowledge, - Because, thou, hast rejected knowledge, therefore will I reject thee from ministering as priest unto me, and, because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also, will forget thy children.

but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them, - and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.

But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee, - and they wrought great insults.

Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;

That it is, a rebellious people, Sons apt at deceiving, - Sons unwilling to hear the law of Yahweh:

Thus saith Yahweh - Stand ye at the ways - and see, And ask for the paths of age-past times, Where is the good way? And walk therein, And ye shall find rest to your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein !

General references

Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:

Teacher! which commandment, is greatest in the law?